Thirty-five years in prison for a wrongful conviction

There is a growing number of wrongful convictions for sex offenses that keep surfacing throughout the country.  This is what happens when no corroborating evidence is required:  it is he-said-she-said.   This most recent case was in Michigan, but Florida has had its share of wrongful convictions for a sex offense.  For almost a decade now, some Florida attorneys, judges, and

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Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS monitoring challenged

This post was written by people within NARSOL and was first published at NARSOL.org.   NARSOL recently released copies of two expert reports filed last week in Antrim v. Carr, 19-cv-396 (Eastern District of Wisconsin).     According to NARSOL, “The case challenges Wisconsin’s statutory scheme requiring that certain individuals convicted of sexual offenses be forced to wear a GPS monitoring

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Federal Judge strikes Alabama’s restrictions on PFRs living with minor children.

In Henry v Abernathy, a Federal Judge ruled that Alabama’s law restricting PFRs (persons forced to register) from living with minor children is unconstitutional.   The State is enjoined from enforcing that section of the law.     The case describes Alabama’s law (ASORNA) as “the most comprehensive and debilitating sex offender scheme in the country.”   Perhaps unique to Alabama

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Legislative Session Help

The 2024 Legislative Session for the Florida Legislature convenes today, January 9.  Last spring’s session was very active with a few proposed laws that were extremely harmful to this community.  With tremendous assistance from you, the Florida Action Committee was very successful in advocating to prevent those bills from passing.    That success can never be taken for granted.  

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Canadian Journal of Criminology and Justice: In time, the general population poses a similar risk of a first time sexual offense as a PFR poses of re-offense.

A new study provocatively titled, “There is No Such Thing as Zero Risk of Sexual Offense” declares that neither the general population nor the population of PFRs (Person Forced to Register) can be determined to be risk free from the occurrence of a sexual offense.     Acknowledging that many studies show low rates of recidivism by PFRs, or qualify those

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Federal Case Challenges SORNA on Due Process and ADA violations

In the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, Greenwald v Cantrell, et al poses fascinating, real world challenges to the unending limits of SORNA.     The individual involved is a PFR who suffers from seizures to such extent that she has been declared to be an “unrestorable incompetent.”  This health condition caused her to be unable to

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